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Sometimes the two of us are on the same page and we don’t even know it! Faced with a bumper crop of tomatoes, we each coincidentally made a similar dinner on the same night. Joan reduced a simple tomato sauce and added some leftover caprese salad ingredients to it. The result was a delicious pasta dinner that her family absolutely loved – lots of rich tomato flavor in a slightly creamy sauce. Meanwhile, Rhona decided to turn the big basket of cherry tomatoes she picked that morning into a sauce also; she roasted them in the oven then added a little garlic that had been soaked in olive oil for a few minutes, some slivered basil, a few wedges of burrata cheese, and balsamic vinegar at the end – the cheese melted into the sauce without further cooking.

Same sauce made two different ways with wonderful results. Here’s Joan’s version: